More From Bobby Cannavale On 'Baffling' ANT-MAN Shoot, Co-Stars, And Insect Action Scenes
Possibly revealing another character we might see shrink in Ant-Man, Bobby Cannavale talks in-depth about his difficult experience filming with blue-screen, and much more. Check it out after the jump!
Though he couldn't dish out Ant-Man plot details for obvious reasons, Bobby Cannavale recently spoke lengthily with Comic Book Resources about his overall experience filming the upcoming Marvel adaptation in which he plays an original character named Paxton, who is the husband of Scott Lang's (Paul Rudd) ex-wife Maggie (Judy Greer). "...It was a trip!" said the actor. "I’ve never been in anything like that before. There’s a ton of people on this crew. You could fit the entire Station Agent crew in… it was just huge! And there’s blue screen everywhere. I remember one time we were shooting at nights for three weeks. I hadn’t seen anything behind me that wasn’t a blue screen for three nights in a row. I remember one night at four in the morning being frustrated and just saying, 'If it’s going to be blue screen all the time, why can’t you just make it be night? Why do we actually have to be here at night?' That part of it was baffling to me."
Bobby Cannavle then explained how the cast of Ant-Man made it easier to wrap his head around everything. "Guys like Corey Stoll and Rudd, Judy Greer and Michael Pena, Martin Donovan — really, really good actors," he said. "And so I looked around and thought, 'You know, if these guys are doing it, I’m okay.' There were no wrestlers or anything. We had T.I., but T.I. was great. But definitely very different from the movies that I’m used to making, for sure." Finally, Cannavale was asked if he did a movie post-Ant-Man to help get back to filming the way he's used to. "It was actually the reverse," he replied. "I literally wrapped with [Martin] Scorsese — I worked with Scorsese all summer on the rock and roll pilot, and it was literally the longest pilot ever. It was like a 38-day pilot, so we shot all summer. I literally wrapped with Marty at like one o’clock in the morning, an intense scene, this intense, dark scene, and wrapped with him, big hug. And then I got onto a plane in Atlanta for a blue screen test of me fighting with a 50-foot ant. And I wrote Marty right away — I was like, 'This business is weird.” [Laughs] “I can’t believe I was just with you, and now I’m reacting to an ant I can’t see.'" A 50-foot ant? Will Paxton's character shrink in the Ant-Man too? Or will Hank Pym's shrinking formula become a growth formula at some point?